My driver's ed teacher taught us "Never accelerate when making a turn." I objected that, in the physics sense, it is impossible make a turn without accelerating. The teacher, who taught gym when he wasn't teaching driver's ed, wasn't amused. Jim Propp On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, Veit Elser <ve10@cornell.edu> wrote:
I’m reminded of “high rate of speed” making frequent appearances on the local police blotter. Gratuitous physics-babble, or was it truly “acceleration” that alerted the authorities?
-Veit
On May 19, 2015, at 7:00 AM, W. Edwin Clark <wclark@mail.usf.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
See current major league baseball standings at http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings/_/sort/pointdifferential See the column DIFF. If you pause your cursor over DIFF you will see that it means Run Differential.and it clearly means in this case Runs Scored - Runs Allowed. Clearly this could be specialized to apply to one team against just one other team instead of against all other teams.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
Isn't the usual jargon "point spread" ?
--Dan
Thane wrote: ----- I'm no fan, but how to reformulate this one without getting all wordy?
"Golden State had a higher point differential vs. Memphis than it did vs. the Pelicans, despite losing two games to the Grizzlies." -----
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